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I don't get a racist tone at all and it sounds like Blige may be saying she understands how her fans could be offended by it just because she is getting negative comments about it.

I was offended by it but because it was just a bad commercial. Blige should apologize for singing such a terrible song about chicken. Yes there is a stereotype of african americans liking fried chicken, but that doesn't mean that any reference of fried chicken in this manner is racist. BK is selling chicken and most people, all racists, like chicken and Blige was hired to promote it, which she did.

I didn't see the add yet but if MJB is ok with this then I don't have a problem with it. I'm black, don't eat chicken (or any other meat) but if someone else choses to do so that's their high cholestorol not mines.

Fortunately this incident will likely provide lots of black comedians with another few months worth of material :)

It is really sad the overwhelming obsession some people have with fighting stereotypes as if it's something you can fight. A stereotype just IS, you can't just stop it existing. Most stereotypes exist in our cultural consciousness because somewhere, someone noticed a pattern (or through the filter of their own biases what they thought was a pattern) among certain members of a certain population. Lots of black people eat fried chicken (so do lots of white people but that apparently provides no entertainment value, so is not mentioned). So there developed a stereotype about black people eating chicken (which I really don't see what is offensive about a tendency of any given group of an larger populace liking a particular food) .

Now it's almost taboo for black people to be seen eating chicken!

Are they racist for eating chicken? Is the chicken racist for being fried and eaten? Is Burger King racist for selling fried chicken products to blacks? Seriously, where is the actual racism here? Where is someone being held down or losing their rights and freedoms or being discriminated against because a company paid a singer of a certain ethnicity to sing about chicken for a commercial?

It's marketing! So a couple of years ago had Sir Mix-A-Lot been rapping about chicken instead of Spongebob for a BK commercial, would that have been racist? Would we then be expected to boycott Spongebob, Sir Mix-A-Lot AND Burger King? Is that a win for ANYONE? Think of the cardiologists!

If YouTube had an "outrage" filter, you wouldn't see 90% of the comments left on the site.